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really decisive factors in the lofty emotions
of love, and in the charm of love, as the
attraction of the senses. This wealth in the
elements of mutual dependence is what keeps
fidelity in love both inwardly and outwardly.
This soft current of the soul’s depths keeps
the sensuous charm fresh; while mere relation,
both legal marriage and free union, very soon
exhausts happiness and leaves behind ennui,
if love has contained only sensuous attraction,
and not that mutual feeling of dependence,
which involves the union of the soul and the
sense, and which unites the spirit and the
sympathies.
The duty and responsibility towards the
children will be all the more strict as society
learns to regard it as one of its principal
duties to hinder all thoughtless and undeserved
suffering.
The morality of the future will not be
found in sacrificing to the holiness of the
family so-called illegitimate children, who are
often by nature richly endowed, but who by
the prevailing legal system receive such
treatment, that they often become what they are
called, and so are filled with vengeance
against society and the perverse conceptions
of law whose victims they are. Child murder,
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